Subject: Sports » Boxing (Page 5)

Muhammad Ali is Muhammad Ali and compared to him all other men are earthlings.

American boxing trainer

I don't mind the title fight going out at three in the morning. Everyone in Glasgow fights at three in the morning.

Nah, I’m just a prizefighter.

(1919 – 1990) American boxing champion

It would be like the elephants standing up on two feet. It would be like the man being shot out of the cannon. It would be like a woman with a beard down to the floor. It would be the greatest show on earth.

(1949 – ) American boxing champion

Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.

American boxing champion

I’m undisputed. There's no disputing that.

British and Canadian boxing champion

I can only see it going one way, that’s my way. How it’s actually going to go I can't really say.

English boxer

He’s a guy who gets up at six o’clock in the morning regardless of what time it is.

(1922 – ) boxing trainer & manager

Buster Douglas went to bed as a 231-pound world champion and woke up as a 270-pound parade float.

American sports columnist

Butch Lewis is making no attempt to get out of the corner… and is hanging his chin out like a lantern in a storm.

English boxing journalist & commentator

You've got to come in with more than a left hook and a bad haircut to beat Lennox Lewis.

British and Canadian boxing champion

Don King is one of the great humanitarians of our time. He has risen above that great term, prejudice. He has screwed everybody he has ever been around. Hog, dog, or frog, it don't matter to Don. If you got a quarter, he wants the first 26 cents.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor

If Larry Holmes is the people's champion, then asparagus is the people's vegetable.

sportswriter

Billy Wells was all chin from the waist up.

American boxer

He looks up at him through blood smeared lips.

British sports commentator

I'm actually getting to sleep before I have breakfast.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor

I can do my sport no greater service.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor

In pro boxing, let's face it, the name of the game is how much you make – not how many honors won. Billy Walker was the most successful flop in history.

English boxing journalist & commentator

Earnie hit me so hard, it shook my kinfolk back in Africa.

(1942 – ) American boxing champion

It’s just a job; grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand… I beat people up.

(1942 – ) American boxing champion

If I survived the Marines, I can survive Ali.

American boxer